This 'moving skeleton like a worm' is actually an extremely poisonous creature in Africa

A creature with a strange pattern like a skeleton and a head that resembled an alien's head was slowly moving forward in a straight line. At first glance, many people will probably guess that it is some kind of worm!

But the creature appearing in the video is one of the most dangerous creatures in sub-Saharan Africa: Gaboon viper (Bitis gabonica) - the world's longest fang-toothed snake (up to 5cm).

Even the king cobra - the longest snake in the world with a length of up to 7m - has only fangs ranging from 8 to 10 millimeters long. The Gaboon viper is also the heaviest venomous snake in Africa and has the highest venom dose per bite of any other venomous snake.

Gaboon viper.

In addition, the Gaboon viper is also one of the few snakes that has a recilinear locomotion instead of an S-shape like most other snakes. They use toned belly scales to be able to move forward.

Biologist Bruce Jayne of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, when his study on the movement of snakes titled "Crawling without Wiggling" was published in the Journal of Experimental Biology explained:

The straight way of moving helps snakes move in tight and cramped spaces. Most of the snakes/pythons that have this way of moving are large snakes/pythons such as viper vipers, South American pythons, pythons.

The Gaboon viper's venom can kill a healthy adult with only 1/30th of the average amount of venom, though dangerously so, these snakes rarely attack humans because of their remote habitat. away from humans and snakes Gaboon is also quite calm.